Posted by Mitchell Collins-Bailey on Feb 12, 2018 4:29:35 PM

Stampede2 will be unavailable from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. (CT) on Tuesday, 20 February 2018. System maintenance will be performed during this time. If you submit a job before the maintenance, and the time you request exceeds the time remaining until the maintenance begins, your job will run when the...

Stampede2 will be unavailable from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. (CT) on Tuesday, 20 February 2018. System maintenance will be performed during this time.

If you submit a job before the maintenance, and the time you request exceeds the time remaining until the maintenance begins, your job will run when the maintenance is over. The squeue command will report "ReqNodeNotAvailable" ("Required Node Not Available"). The showq utility will list the job as "BLOCKED" and report its status as "WaitNod" ("Waiting for Nodes"). Note that the hours leading up to the maintenance are an excellent time to submit shorter, smaller jobs that can complete before the maintenance begins: as the queues drain there will be many nodes available, and your wait time may be short.

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Posted by Jason Allison on Jan 24, 2018 2:56:51 PM

We are pleased to announce the following training events are being offered to both in-person and webcast participants for February 2018. Local participants are strongly encouraged to attend in person. 2/5/18 8:30am-12:30pm CT - C++ for C programmers 2/15/18 8am-12pm CT - Introduction to Manycore...

We are pleased to announce the following training events are being offered to both in-person and webcast participants for February 2018. Local participants are strongly encouraged to attend in person.

Posted by Jacob Getz on Jan 9, 2018 11:24:40 AM

Stampede2 will be unavailable from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. (CT) on Tuesday, 16 January 2018. System maintenance will be performed during this time. If you submit a job before the maintenance, and the time you request exceeds the time remaining until the maintenance begins, your job will run when the...

Updated on Jan 23, 2018 10:32:44 PM

The Stampede2 maintenance is complete and the system is back in production. During the maintenance we upgraded the login nodes. This should have little to no adverse impact, but you may need to take minor actions to account for the new login nodes: e.g. reschedule cron jobs or update known hosts on your client.

Updated on Jan 23, 2018 7:27:31 PM

Stampede2 maintenance has been extended. We will provide further updates as they become available.

Updated on Jan 22, 2018 11:04:59 AM

As a reminder, Stampede2 will undergo scheduled system maintenance on Tuesday, 23 Jan 2018 between 8:00AM and 7:30PM CST. This is the maintenance originally scheduled for 16 Jan 2018 that we delayed due to inclement weather. The system will be unavailable during this window.

Planned activities include upgrading the login nodes. This should have little to no adverse impact, but after the maintenance you may need to take minor actions to account for the new login nodes: e.g. rescheduling cron jobs or updating known hosts on your client.

If you submit a job before the maintenance, and your job cannot finish before the maintenance begins, your job will run when the maintenance is over. The squeue command will report "ReqNodeNotAvailable" ("Required Node Not Available"). The showq utility will list the job as "BLOCKED" and report its status as "WaitNod" ("Waiting for Nodes"). Note that the hours leading up to the maintenance are an excellent time to submit shorter, smaller jobs that can complete before the maintenance begins: as the queues drain there will be many nodes available, and your wait time may be short.

Updated on Jan 15, 2018 9:51:38 PM

The University of Texas will be closed due to inclement weather tomorrow, January 16, 2018. For this reason, the Stampede2 maintenance scheduled for this date will be rescheduled for Tuesday, January 23, 2018 from 8am to 7:30pm (CST).

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Stampede2 will be unavailable from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. (CT) on Tuesday, 16 January 2018. System maintenance will be performed during this time.

If you submit a job before the maintenance, and the time you request exceeds the time remaining until the maintenance begins, your job will run when the maintenance is over. The squeue command will report "ReqNodeNotAvailable" ("Required Node Not Available"). The showq utility will list the job as "BLOCKED" and report its status as "WaitNod" ("Waiting for Nodes"). Note that the hours leading up to the maintenance are an excellent time to submit shorter, smaller jobs that can complete before the maintenance begins: as the queues drain there will be many nodes available, and your wait time may be short.

Posted by Chris Hempel on Dec 21, 2017 6:42:54 AM

TACC personnel will observe the University of Texas at Austin winter break from 5 p.m. (CST) on Thursday, 21 December 2017, and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, 2 January 2018. A staff member will be on site to monitor the status of all TACC resources. TACC support staff will monitor...

TACC personnel will observe the University of Texas at Austin winter break from 5 p.m. (CST) on Thursday, 21 December 2017, and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, 2 January 2018. A staff member will be on site to monitor the status of all TACC resources. TACC support staff will monitor the consulting system throughout the break and address critical system issues. The staff will address other issues beginning Tuesday, 2 January 2018.

Please submit any questions you may have via the TACC Consulting System.

Posted by Jacob Getz on Dec 11, 2017 2:55:43 PM

Stampede2 will be unavailable 19 Dec 2017 between 8:00AM and 7:30PM CST for maintenance.

-TACC Team

Updated on Dec 19, 2017 7:29:33 PM

Stampede2 is now back in production. Thank you.

Updated on Dec 18, 2017 2:58:04 PM

Reminder: Stampede2 will be unavailable December 19th 2017 between 8:00AM and 7:30PM CST for maintenance.

At the end of this maintenance, the new Skylake (SKX) nodes will enter production service alongside the existing Knights Landing (KNL) nodes. SKX jobs that run after the maintenance will incur normal accounting charges. See the Stampede2 User Guide for more information. (https://portal.tacc.utexas.edu/user-guides/stampede2)

If you submit a job before the maintenance, and the time you request exceeds the time remaining until the maintenance begins, your job will run when the maintenance is over. The squeue command will report "ReqNodeNotAvailable" ("Required Node Not Available"). The showq utility will list the job as "BLOCKED" and report its status as "WaitNod" ("Waiting for Nodes"). Note that the hours leading up to the maintenance are an excellent time to submit shorter, smaller jobs that can complete before the maintenance begins: as the queues drain there will be many nodes available, and your wait time may be short.

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Stampede2 will be unavailable 19 Dec 2017 between 8:00AM and 7:30PM CST for maintenance.

Posted by Sergio Leal on Dec 18, 2017 12:15:37 PM

Wrangler system is currently unavailable due to a software error. Administrators are currently working on resolving the issue. There is no current ETA and we will provide further updates as they become available. Thanks.

Updated on Dec 18, 2017 6:34:25 PM

Wrangler has been returned to production at this time. Thank you.

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Wrangler system is currently unavailable due to a software error. Administrators are currently working on resolving the issue. There is no current ETA and we will provide further updates as they become available. Thanks.

Posted by Jason Allison on Dec 1, 2017 11:58:48 AM

December 14th, 2017 9am-1pm CT Texas Advanced Computing Center ACB 1.104 J.J. Pickle Research Campus 10100 Burnet Rd. Austin, TX 78758 OpenMP is one of the most popular paradigms to exploit the now ubiquitous manycore and multi-core processors. In this beginner-level training session, we will...

OpenMP is one of the most popular paradigms to exploit the now ubiquitous manycore and multi-core processors. In this beginner-level training session, we will provide an overview of the basic concepts of OpenMP. We will introduce the trainees to the Interactive Parallelization Tool (IPT) that is designed for parallelizing serial C/C++ programs semi-automatically. The participants in the training session will be introduced to OpenMP and will learn to use IPT for parallelizing their C/C++ applications.

Prerequisites: Experience working in a Linux environment, and familiarity with C/C++/Fortran or any other programming language.

We are offering the training to both in-person and webcast participants. Local participants are strongly encouraged to attend in person.

To attend the training in person, please contact me via email at jasona@tacc.utexas.edu.

Posted by Chris Hempel on Nov 27, 2017 4:34:48 PM

Two new queues have been configured on Maverick to accommodate GPU jobs that require more runtime than allowed in the gpu queue. These two queues are configured as follows: gpu-long - up to 72 hours runtime, one node per job (i.e. sbatch -N 1 and/or -n 20 or less) - maximum of 8 jobs allowed in...

Updated on Dec 1, 2017 8:59:34 AM

The runtime limit on the gpu queue has been increased to 24 hours.

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Two new queues have been configured on Maverick to accommodate GPU jobs that require more runtime than allowed in the gpu queue. These two queues are configured as follows:

Posted by David Littrell on Nov 15, 2017 12:09:26 PM

Stampede2 will be unavailable 28 Nov 2017 between 8:00AM and 7:30PM CST for maintenance. If you submit a job and the time you request exceeds the time remaining until the maintenance begins, your job will run when the maintenance is over. The squeue command will report "ReqNodeNotAvailable"...

Stampede2 will be unavailable 28 Nov 2017 between 8:00AM and 7:30PM CST for maintenance.

If you submit a job and the time you request exceeds the time remaining until the maintenance begins, your job will run when the maintenance is over. The squeue command will report "ReqNodeNotAvailable" ("Required Node Not Available"). The showq utility will list the job as "BLOCKED" and report its status as "WaitNod" ("Waiting for Nodes"). Note that the hours leading up to the maintenance are an excellent time to submit shorter, smaller jobs that can complete before the maintenance begins: as the queues drain there will be many nodes available, and your wait time may be short.

Posted by David Littrell on Nov 9, 2017 9:50:00 AM

At 08:00 on Tuesday, November 21st, the Ranch environment will be brought down for normal system maintenance. Due to the 1.3 billion files currently in Ranch, this maintenance activity should take between 24 and 36 hours. We expect to bring Ranch back into production no sooner than 20:00 Wednesday,...

At 08:00 on Tuesday, November 21st, the Ranch environment will be brought down for normal system maintenance. Due to the 1.3 billion files currently in Ranch, this maintenance activity should take between 24 and 36 hours. We expect to bring Ranch back into production no sooner than 20:00 Wednesday, November 22nd.

Users should take note that it is possible that this downtime could extend overnight into the Thanksgiving holiday. Appropriate notice will be given should this maintenance event run longer than its expected 36 hours.

Posted by Matthew Edeker on Oct 23, 2017 9:27:42 AM

Wrangler will be unavailable from 7:30am to 5:30pm CST on Tuesday 7 November 2017 for system maintenance.

Updated on Nov 7, 2017 9:49:10 PM

Wrangler has been returned to production and the queues are open. A substantial upgrade was done to Slurm scheduler. Unfortunately, this meant jobs placed in the queue prior to maintenance were lost. We will be contacting users directly to ask them to resubmit. Thank you for your patience.

Updated on Nov 7, 2017 4:28:27 PM

Wrangler maintenance has taken longer than expected and does not currently have an ETA for completion. We apologize for any inconveniences.

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Wrangler will be unavailable from 7:30am to 5:30pm CST on Tuesday 7 November 2017 for system maintenance.

Posted by Jason Allison on Oct 17, 2017 2:50:15 PM

Stampede2 will be unavailable for a four-day period beginning Friday, 20 Oct 2017 at 8 am CDT. This extended outage will allow: (1) full system science and benchmarking runs; as well as, (2) configuration, integration, and testing activities to prepare for Stampede2 “Phase 2” deployment. Phase 2...

Updated on Oct 23, 2017 4:49:37 PM

The Stampede2 system maintenance will need to be extended until at least 6PM CDT tomorrow to finish the work of integrating the phase 2 nodes into the system.

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Stampede2 will be unavailable for a four-day period beginning Friday, 20 Oct 2017 at 8 am CDT. This extended outage will allow: (1) full system science and benchmarking runs; as well as, (2) configuration, integration, and testing activities to prepare for Stampede2 “Phase 2” deployment.

Phase 2 will feature the addition of 1,736 “Skylake” Xeon nodes to the system. Stampede2 will be completely unavailable during the maintenance window. We expect to reopen the KNL nodes to general use by 6 pm, Monday, 23 Oct 2017.

Posted by Jason Allison on Oct 4, 2017 2:42:54 PM

We still have space available for this Friday's MPI Foundations I and II training events. Please register ASAP to avoid missing out on this opportunity. Local attendees are strongly encouraged to attend in-person. To register and for more information please visit:...

We still have space available for this Friday's MPI Foundations I and II training events. Please register ASAP to avoid missing out on this opportunity. Local attendees are strongly encouraged to attend in-person.

Posted by Sergio Leal on Sep 14, 2017 9:05:39 AM

LoneStar5 will not be available from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (CT) on Tuesday, 26 September 2017. We will be doing maintenance on the DDN hardware supporting the /scratch filesystem.

Updated on Sep 26, 2017 8:41:22 PM

LoneStar5 has returned to production. Login nodes and queues are open. Vlogins are still down and are planned to be restored tomorrow.

Thank you for your patience.

-TACC Team

Updated on Sep 26, 2017 5:18:12 PM

LoneStar5 is not returning to production on schedule after today's maintenance. The issues relating to /scratch filesystem were correctly resolved, however, required security patches are causing us to prolong the maintenance. We apologize for the inconvenience.

-TACC Team

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LoneStar5 will not be available from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (CT) on Tuesday, 26 September 2017. We will be doing maintenance on the DDN hardware supporting the /scratch filesystem.

Posted by David Littrell on Sep 20, 2017 1:04:16 PM

LoneStar5 has been returned to production and the queues and login nodes are available for use. We apologize for the inconvenience of having extended the maintenance window. We experienced hardware problems with Cray cabinet controllers as well as hardware issues with the /scratch shared...

LoneStar5 has been returned to production and the queues and login nodes are available for use. We apologize for the inconvenience of having extended the maintenance window. We experienced hardware problems with Cray cabinet controllers as well as hardware issues with the /scratch shared filesystem. So please note that there will be performance degradation on /scratch until raid arrays are rebuilt over the next few hours. If possible please limit your IO on /scratch.

Posted by Jason Allison on Sep 15, 2017 4:14:45 PM

I am pleased to announce the following training events are being offered to both in-person and webcast participants for October 2017. Local participants are strongly encouraged to attend in person. 10/4/17 - Introduction To Hadoop And Spark On Wrangler 10/6/17 - MPI Foundations I and MPI...

I am pleased to announce the following training events are being offered to both in-person and webcast participants for October 2017. Local participants are strongly encouraged to attend in person.

Posted by Jason Allison on Aug 24, 2017 4:40:22 PM

September 14th, 2017 1pm-5pm CT Texas Advanced Computing Center ACB 1.104 J.J. Pickle Research Campus 10100 Burnet Rd. Austin, TX 78758 OpenMP is one of the most popular paradigms to exploit the now ubiquitous manycore and multi-core processors. In this beginner-level training session, we will...

Updated on Sep 12, 2017 2:29:55 PM

We still have spaces available for the Introduction to OpenMP using the Interactive Parallelization Tool (IPT) September 14th, 2017. Please register ASAP to avoid missing out on this opportunity.

Original Posting

OpenMP is one of the most popular paradigms to exploit the now ubiquitous manycore and multi-core processors. In this beginner-level training session, we will provide an overview of the basic concepts of OpenMP. We will introduce the trainees to the Interactive Parallelization Tool (IPT) that is designed for parallelizing serial C/C++ programs semi-automatically. The participants in the training session will be introduced to OpenMP and will learn to use IPT for parallelizing their C/C++ applications.

Prerequisites: Experience working in a Linux environment, and familiarity with C/C++/Fortran or any other programming language.

We are offering the training to both in-person and webcast participants. Local participants are strongly encouraged to attend in person.

Posted by Jacob Getz on Sep 5, 2017 3:06:27 PM

Corral will not be available from 9 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (CT) on Tuesday, 19 September 2017 while system updates are performed. All Corral file systems, web and iRODS services will be unavailable. Database services will not be affected.

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Corral will not be available from 9 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (CT) on Tuesday, 19 September 2017 while system updates are performed. All Corral file systems, web and iRODS services will be unavailable. Database services will not be affected.